April 12, 2007

Gearing up for production, the filmmakers of "Saw IV" seem to quicken their pace in filling up the flick's cast lineup following the inclusion of Tobin Bell. Arrow in the Head has confirmed with director Darren Lynn Bousman that Lyriq Bent will once again play Rigg in the project while Bloody-Disgusting.com has revealed that Justin Louis has also been billed for a role.

Making another progress in developing "Barbarella" following their successful effort to complete a rights deal for the flick, producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis have hired "Casino Royale" screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade to both pen the screenplay, Variety has reported.

Finally landing his film feature directorial debut, short movie director Phil Traill has been assigned by Fox 2000 to helm its comedy flick "All About Steve", which has already had Sandra Bullock onboard to topline.

Good luck charm is still by Snoop Dogg's side. The troubled rapper pleaded no contest to charges of sale or transportation of marijuana and possession of a gun Wednesday April 11th and thus avoided what could have been years-long prison sentence.

Now becoming the meeting point of two Oscar-winning talents, "The Great Debaters" has satisfyingly submitted Forest Whitaker into its cast lineup alongside Denzel Washington, who finally jumps in to also star in this feature directorial effort of him, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed.

She feels so lucky to be the mother of twin daughters after years waiting to be a mom. Now that her dream comes true, Marcia Cross shares her motherhood experience to People magazine in its April 23 issue, on newsstands Friday April 13th.

Reports on her working on her next studio album with the help of pop singer Justin Timberlake has been confirmed. Meanwhile, words got around that Madonna is making her way back to Malawi, Africa with her adopted son David Banda to meet with the boy's biological father.

As a try out plus a warming up for his newest album, Seal will preview the material in a short US tour. Scheduled for second half of May, the trek will begin May 15 in Westbury, NY and end May 30 in Dallas, TX.

No doubt providing the link between the second and third installment of the hit adventure series, Brendan Fraser finally is positive to reprise his role as Rick O'Connell in Universal Pictures' "The Mummy 3."

Who has the bad luck in making relationship with opposite sex? According In Touch Weekly magazine it's Sheryl Crow. The singer, sad to say, earns the unwanted title of the Most Unlucky in Love Female in Hollywood for her many failed-relationships with numbers of men.

It takes 6 years for Ozzy Osbourne to create his ninth studio album titled "Black Rain". Finally he sets the date of release to May 22 via Epic Records. He self-proclaimed this album will be much better than 2001's "Down to Earth".

Getting such a potential big screen project within its grasp, Lionsgate has come onboard as domestic distributor of action epic "The Forbidden Kingdom", known previously as "Jackie Chan/Jet Li Project" or "Untitled J&J Project", Variety has learned.

Set to pump up moviegoers' adrenaline, Universal Pictures is getting on the track to develop an untitled adventure flick from writer Chris Morgan's pitch that it has preemptively purchased for reportedly $700,000 against $1.35 million.

A 15.7 per cent increase is gained by the album sales this week, thanks to the highly commercial "Now That's What I Call Music! 24" that moves 213,000 units. Despite the compilation's 7 per cent drop from last week, it enters the chart at #1, a flip-flop position to last week's reigner "Let It Go" by Tim McGraw. The country singer's album has to give up the top position after a 46 per cent drop at 177,000.

On the heels of a report stating that the marriage of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony is on the rock, comes a new report claiming the Salsa singer-songwriter has agreed to pay $2.5 million in back taxes, interest and penalties after failing to file returns for five years.

Melanie Brown is taking one step forward in the battle with former boyfriend Eddie Murphy over her daughter's biological father. While the court has yet released official decision on that encounter, the Scary Spice bravely listed the comedian as her newborn daughter's father on the baby's birth certificate.